Posted on 03/31/2018 6:27:49 AM PDT by DWW1990
Make no mistake about it, in the hands of the American left, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not safe. For that matter, virtually nothing wise or precious or sacred or holy or otherwise good is safe with those corrupted by a liberal worldview. Whether marriage, the family, the church, life in the womb, education, small businesses, fossil fuels, law enforcement, the military, the Constitution, and so on, time and again liberals have proven themselves to be on the wrong side of the truth.
Whats more, in the hands of todays leftists, the Second Amendmentand anything else in the U.S. Constitution with which modern liberals are unhappyis in jeopardy whether or not it is repealed. As most now well know, John Paul Stevensa retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Courtrecently gave his direct endorsement to the shockingly foolishbut increasingly popular among democratsidea that the Second Amendment should be repealed...
For two centuries the right to healthcare, housing, a living wage, marriage, education, and the like, escaped the vast majority of Americansincluding our politicians and jurists...
Nevertheless, in recent decades, as they increasingly made a god of government and sought to build a massive welfare state (through which votes could be purchased), democrats and those like-minded have fully embraced the notion of paternal care on the part of the government.
(Excerpt) Read more at trevorgrantthomas.com ...
The First is already gone. Ever hear of political correctness? Free speech only exists until you offend one of the power groups.
My Late Mother used to say “You help people who can’t help themselves, not people who won’t help themselves”.
The “you” in her statement was not the Government.
I stand corrected.
There’s about 3% of the people who are on the gov’t dime who are truly needy, and should be helped. We should be the people that help them willingly instead of having the government do it for us. You are entirely correct in that.
Thank you for the correction, FRiend.
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